دراسة تحليلية لنظم تقييم استدامة المبانى السكنية

Abstract EN

With the spread of general urban and architectural awareness among individuals and societies, and the important rank of the sustainability issue on the list of priorities of most governments when planning all sectors of development, especially the residential development sector, it was necessary to change the superficial look of public housing projects to meet the different needs of users and achieve the three main dimensions of sustainable housing, which are the environmental, economic and socio-cultural dimensions, through which the real concept of sustainability is achieved.

Hence, the need arose for the existence of systems to assess sustainability aiming to encourage sustainable buildings and works to create a system for comparing buildings with each other to create competitive spirit in its environmental performance.

It also works to verify the extent to which these buildings achieve a balance between the elements of environmental, economic, and social cultural sustainability.

Therefore, these systems are supposed to include a set of criteria and bases that aim to ascertain the extent to which these buildings achieve a balance between the pillars of environmental, economic, social and cultural sustainability, which must be in balance with each other.

None of these elements can be achieved at the expense of another element, otherwise the sustainability will lack its real concept.

Therefore, this research paper aims to study and analyze some of the most famous Arab and global sustainability assessment systems, which include a special program to assess the sustainability of housing through a comparison of the main categories of evaluation systems to classify them in terms of major sustainability elements.

This shows the extent of their achievement of the three environmental, economic, and socio-cultural sustainability elements, and the extent to which it achieved the concept of real sustainability.